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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook

By : Peter Serzo
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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook

By: Peter Serzo

Overview of this book

Collaboration and content management are the major business needs of every organization in this increasingly global and connected environment. Microsoft SharePoint is a solution to these needs that offers a software platform that facilitates collaboration and provides content management features for the effective implementation of business processes. With a vast amount of functionality available with SharePoint, it is easy to get confused in carrying out administrative tasks. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook starts off by demonstrating the various upgrading and post-upgrading tasks to be performed in SharePoint 2010. Next come recipes for managing SharePoint service-level applications and for monitoring the SharePoint environment. The book introduces one of the best new tools that should be in your arsenal, PowerShell, and the commands you will need to script your tasks with Powershell. Collaboration and content management are the most important features of SharePoint and this book contains many recipes that focus on improving them. Enterprise monitoring and reporting are also covered in detail so that you can ensure that your SharePoint implementation is up and running all the time. You will find recipes to manage and customize SharePoint Search. When you are half way through the book, you will explore more advanced and interesting topics such as customizing and securing the SharePoint environment. You will learn to extend SharePoint to include features similar to social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Lastly, the book covers backup and recovery solutions for SharePoint so that you can ensure that your system is protected from data loss and virus attacks.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface

Setting up Excel Services


Excel Services is a standalone Service Application, giving users the ability to render their spreadsheets through SharePoint into the browser. Some of the benefits that are derived from this architecture are:

  • Ability to delegate administration of the service to particular users. This takes the burden of management from IT down to a user level. A SharePoint group can be created for users who will administrate this service.

  • Dedicate a server to run the service. This provides a level of adaptability and scalability as your organization's needs change.

  • This gives organizations a place to collaborate and helps prevent the spread of spreadsheets in files shares.

In order to leverage this technology, you must know how to set up this service application. In this recipe, we cover the steps necessary to create an Excel Services Service Application.

Getting ready

You must have Farm Administrator privileges to Central Administration.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Open Central Administration...